Functional Lead– Oracle Fusion Cloud (Senior Oracle Functional Analyst)
Position Summary
This position is responsible for collection, analysis, review, documentation and communication of business needs and requirements to IT. Facilitates and leads the gathering of business needs, developing and/or assisting with solution design with the primary focus on the Oracle Fusion Cloud applications and modules. Partners with Oracle Functional Analysts, Business Analysts and Application Support Analysts to provide coaching and mentoring. Performs and/or partners with technical team members to make system modifications. Performs software training and presentations.
Accountabilities
Requirements Documentation and Analysis: Assesses business needs utilizing a structured requirements gathering process. Analyzes, documents, and manages changes to assist with and identify business priorities including discussion documentation, agreements, and existing processes. Focuses on business process improvements of all levels of complexity impacting one to many client areas. Assists business partners to identify gaps, opportunities, impacts, risks and provide best fit solution recommendation.
Ability to write functional specifications for enhancements and/or customizations by developing and writing requirements for the implementation of business solutions. Translates business requirements, recommends best fit Oracle Fusion applications with developed and documented business and application processes. Contributes to strategic vision utilizing a broad range of ideas. Performs feasibility studies of potential Oracle Fusion ERP applications/solutions. Prepares design proposals to reflect cost, time, or alternative actions satisfying existing & future needs of the business; including Oracle upgrades, third party partners/solutions, and workflow products consolidation/upgrades. Develops analysis models such as process flows, activity diagrams and usage models. Writes, creates, organizes, and updates standard test script templates for each scenario within a test plan and training documentation, use of User Productivity Kit when possible. New or changed functionality implementation planning and execution.
Solution Assessment and Validation: Oversight on assigned projects and ensuring compliance to approval/prioritization processes. Assists teams with detailed design work for projects of all levels of complexity. Monitors and assists with creation of comprehensive test plans detailing all scenarios to be tested. Coordinates various User Acceptance Testing, works with the Quality Assurance Team and End-Users to review test deliverables, acceptance criteria and assists in validating test results, thereby obtaining approval for implementation to production environment. Assists and performs functional/business process testing aligned to documented requirements. Understands, communicates changes and additional functionality provided by version upgrades and their impact to Organization.
Training/Education and Mentor/Leadership: Conducts on-going user training in addition to training during any conversion or implementation of new systems/processes. Employs Oracle Knowledge Base to research and execute solutions to issues as needed. Engaged in knowledge sharing within the Oracle Community. Assists definition and establishment of new methodologies, processes, and best practice as related to business analysis. Contributes both ideas and effort towards continuous improvement. Comprehensive knowledge of Organization specific customizations. Adheres to and encourages adherence to the Agile/Scrum and/or EPMO processes and IT framework processes supporting organization initiatives (projects, enhancements, support). This also includes compliance within the FDA SDLC process. Partners with staff within and from other teams to provide coaching and mentoring to facilitate business and technology staff comprehension of new processes. Actively participates with business partners in developing and achieving department goals and executing broader organizational initiatives.
Required Qualifications
Knowledge of: Requirement Gathering: Meeting with business stakeholders to understand their current workflows and identifying how Oracle Fusion can improve them. System Configuration & Setup: Configuring Oracle Fusion Cloud applications including defining structures such as Chart of Accounts, Calendars and Currencies. Setting up the "rules" of the software (e.g., defining approval hierarchies, tax rules, or payment terms) without custom coding. Testing & Quality Assurance: Leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and System Integration Testing (SIT) to ensure the system works as intended before it goes live. Documentation: Writing Functional Design Documents (FDDs) that explain how the system is set up and how technical teams should build any needed custom reports or integrations. Support & Training: Troubleshooting issues for end-users, managing quarterly Oracle updates, and conducting training sessions. Module Expertise: Deep knowledge of Oracle Fusion applications in one or more modules (e.g., Financials, SCM, Procurement). Should specialize in one of the following: ERP (Financials): Focusing on General Leedger, COA, Enterprise Structure, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. SCM (Supply Chain Management): Managing procurement, Order Management and Inventory. Functional Knowledge: Strong understanding of business processes such as Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Inventory Management, Budget to Report etc. Analytical Skills: Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specs. Technical Familiarity: Experience with OTBI (Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence) and Oracle BI Publisher for reporting. Working knowledge of some or all of the Oracle Fusion applications suite of products: Projects and/or Grants Module, Order Management, Advanced Pricing, Inventory, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Self-Service Procurement and Purchasing. Ability to: Work within a team environment. Manage oneself in a complex, high speed, self-correcting environment obtaining desirable results. Effectively facilitate and lead meetings. Demonstrate strong organization and presentation skills. Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information. Be self-motivated. Meet time commitments on multiple tasks with quality deliverables in unsupervised environment. Exhibit strong, professional negotiation skills. Demonstrate excellent oral & written communication skills. Demonstrate experience with implementation of large-scale, cross-functional projects & analyzing improvement for business & quality processes, and business writing. Determine and document comprehensive user requirements using a wide variety of techniques (e.g. Business Requirements Analysis, Use Case Design, Technical Specification Analysis & High Level Design).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
SQL knowledge and understanding of underlying Oracle Fusion Applications table structure. Working knowledge of Fusion AI Agent Studio and its capabilities. Business Analyst principles; analysis and defining of business requirements and processes; quality improvement processes; Understanding of Quality Assurance, Project Management and SDLC methodology.